Table of Contents

toc Wicked Wiki of the West

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Quotes & Proverbs for Educational Philosophy

Section 3: Burning Question

Section 4: Web 2.0 Stuff

Wicked Wiki of the West

Section 1: Introduction

Section 2: Quotes & Proverbs for Educational Philosophy

1. “Education is what you have left after you forget everything you learned in school” – Albert Einstein
2. “We have to reinvent the wheel every once in a while, not because we need a lot of wheels, but because we need a lot of inventors.” – Bruce Joyce
3. “Let us teach guessing” – George Polya
4. “We talk too much; we should talk less and draw more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
5. “If you do something once, people call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it three times and you’ve just proven a natural law.” –Grace Murray Hopper
6. Einstein was once asked, “What is your phone number?”. He answered, “I don’t know, but I know where to find it when I need it.”
7. “It’s amazing what one can do when one doesn’t know what one can’t do.” – Garfield the Cat
8. “Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” – Anna Freud
9. “You can observe a lot just by watching.” - Yogi Berra
10. “It takes a whole village to raise a child” – Nigerian Saying
11. “A mind that is stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions.” –Oliver Wendell Holmes
12. “To be successful, the first thing to do is to fall in love with your work.” – Sister Mary Lauretta
13. “The purpose of education … is to create in a person the ability to look at the world for themselves, to make their own decisions.” – James Baldwin
14. “People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail.” –Abraham Maslow
15. “To try and to fail is not laziness.” - Sierra Leone saying.
16. “Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
17. “That’s the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they’ve been all along.” – Madeleine L’Engle
18. “Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don’t try for the next hill.” - Maya Angelou
19. “Education is what allows you to get into more intelligent trouble.” – Anonymous
20. “If you can only find it, there is a reason for everything. – Traditional saying.
21. “Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat’s ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there.” – Andrew Mercer
22. “If you have made mistakes… there is always another chance for you… you may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing we call “failure” is not the falling down, but the staying down.” –Mary Pickford
23. “You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.” – Sidonie Gabriella Collette
24. “Imagination is the highest kite we fly.” – Lauren Bacall
25. “Research is formalized curiousity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” - Zora Neale Hurston
26. WDYDWYDKWTD? (Acronym for: What do you do when you don’t know what to do?)
27. “Give a person a fish and they will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and they will eat for a lifetime.” - Proverb
28. “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.” – Proverb

Section 3: Burning Question

Section 4: Web 2.0 Stuff